Florian, the most feared capo, is dead
In the Department of Prisons, all the security personnel from Najayo, La Victoria, and Monte Plata was ordered to quarters
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.- Rolando Florian Feliz, considered by many to be the most feared capo in the country, is dead. His death came on Saturday night during an incident that has still not been cleared up, inside the Najayo prison, where he was incarcerated.
Seven shots from the sidearm of the captain of the prison, Lino Oscar Jimenez, were the cause of the death, according to information offered by the Director of Prisons, Manuel de Jesus Perez Sanchez. The official report says that "near 9 o'clock a night, three hours after visits were supposed to have ended, Captain Jimenez reminded Florian that he had to end the visit by Danerys Mejia de los Santos and Yury Lora that began at 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon."
The reminder was supposed to have been the reason that the inmate cut the face of the officer, who at that moment was unarmed. "The inmate followed the captain outside of his cell, when the officer went to find the weapon with which he shot the prisoner and caused his death," reported Perez Sanchez, during a press conference in which he only read the note and did not answer questions. He said, moreover, that according to versions from witnesses, Florian walked back to his cell and came out again to seek help. Faced with the facts, the Attorney General, Radhames Jimenez, appointed a commission to investigate the case with the National Police.
The commission is made up of the adjunct Attorney General, Ramon Madera, the prosecutor for the National District, Alejandro Moscoso Segarra, the general supervisor of prisons, Henry Garrido, and the police supervisor of prisons, Ricardo Rodriguez. In the Department of Prisons, all the security personnel from Najayo, La Victoria, and Monte Plata was ordered to quarters. In spite of everything, the prison looked normal and the visits flowed as usual yesterday.
Florian Feliz, 43, was a dental student at the UASD when he was arrested in 1994 and sentenced to 20 for trafficking 953 kilos of cocaine. He went from La Victoria, and Monte Plata prisons where he was held in a high security cell. In 2005 he was transferred to a common cell in Najayo.
Throughout his 14 years in prison, the name of Florian was tied to several cases of drugs and murders among which was the case of the kidnapping and murder of Victor Augusto Feliz Mato, which was carried out and for which he was sentenced to six years. He was also condemned to five years of prison for attempting toe escape. On several occasions he tried to get out on bail. The latest attempts date from last January but they were denied.
The facts
"He came out to kill us". This was the statement made by Captain Lino Oscar who was on duty in the Najayo Prison when he was cut on his lips and several of his fingers by Florian Feliz during the incident that cost him his life.
The officer, who is in stable condition at the Central Hospital of the National Police, told DL the facts. "There were two women in the cell. Colonel Apolinario (the person in charge of the prison) wanted the two to leave and the prisoner did not want this," he said.
"When the prisoner came out, he came out of his cell with a knife and he went after the colonel to stab him. When he goes to stab, that is when I have a club in my hand and I told him, "Be careful you do not kill the colonel! Be very careful!", he added.
He said that when Florian saw him, "that was when he became really furious." "He slashed at me like eight times, stabbing, and he cut me in the mouth and the fingers. Then a sergeant had a pistol in his pocket and I took it out...I was there blind, bathed in blood. I took out the pistol, I cocked it and I fired," he said.
In the incident, Florian received seven bullet wounds with entry and exit holes. "I was not going to fire so many rounds but the trigger jammed," he explained.
"When he swung at me the third time (with the knife), he cut me in the mouth because he was trying to slit my throat," he added. He indicated that he had never talked to the inmate and that he was only there as back up. "I am alive by a miracle of God and so in the colonel," he finished.
After the incident in Najayo, Florian was transferred to the Juan Pablo Pina Hospital in San Cristobal. A large number of police and family members accompanied the inmate, who arrived conscious and asking to be taken to the Plaza de la Salud, according to medical personnel that attended him. From the hospital he was transferred to the Marcelino Velez Hospital in Santo Domingo where he died at around 11:00 at night.
Seven shots from the sidearm of the captain of the prison, Lino Oscar Jimenez, were the cause of the death, according to information offered by the Director of Prisons, Manuel de Jesus Perez Sanchez. The official report says that "near 9 o'clock a night, three hours after visits were supposed to have ended, Captain Jimenez reminded Florian that he had to end the visit by Danerys Mejia de los Santos and Yury Lora that began at 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon."
The reminder was supposed to have been the reason that the inmate cut the face of the officer, who at that moment was unarmed. "The inmate followed the captain outside of his cell, when the officer went to find the weapon with which he shot the prisoner and caused his death," reported Perez Sanchez, during a press conference in which he only read the note and did not answer questions. He said, moreover, that according to versions from witnesses, Florian walked back to his cell and came out again to seek help. Faced with the facts, the Attorney General, Radhames Jimenez, appointed a commission to investigate the case with the National Police.
The commission is made up of the adjunct Attorney General, Ramon Madera, the prosecutor for the National District, Alejandro Moscoso Segarra, the general supervisor of prisons, Henry Garrido, and the police supervisor of prisons, Ricardo Rodriguez. In the Department of Prisons, all the security personnel from Najayo, La Victoria, and Monte Plata was ordered to quarters. In spite of everything, the prison looked normal and the visits flowed as usual yesterday.
Florian Feliz, 43, was a dental student at the UASD when he was arrested in 1994 and sentenced to 20 for trafficking 953 kilos of cocaine. He went from La Victoria, and Monte Plata prisons where he was held in a high security cell. In 2005 he was transferred to a common cell in Najayo.
Throughout his 14 years in prison, the name of Florian was tied to several cases of drugs and murders among which was the case of the kidnapping and murder of Victor Augusto Feliz Mato, which was carried out and for which he was sentenced to six years. He was also condemned to five years of prison for attempting toe escape. On several occasions he tried to get out on bail. The latest attempts date from last January but they were denied.
The facts
"He came out to kill us". This was the statement made by Captain Lino Oscar who was on duty in the Najayo Prison when he was cut on his lips and several of his fingers by Florian Feliz during the incident that cost him his life.
The officer, who is in stable condition at the Central Hospital of the National Police, told DL the facts. "There were two women in the cell. Colonel Apolinario (the person in charge of the prison) wanted the two to leave and the prisoner did not want this," he said.
"When the prisoner came out, he came out of his cell with a knife and he went after the colonel to stab him. When he goes to stab, that is when I have a club in my hand and I told him, "Be careful you do not kill the colonel! Be very careful!", he added.
He said that when Florian saw him, "that was when he became really furious." "He slashed at me like eight times, stabbing, and he cut me in the mouth and the fingers. Then a sergeant had a pistol in his pocket and I took it out...I was there blind, bathed in blood. I took out the pistol, I cocked it and I fired," he said.
In the incident, Florian received seven bullet wounds with entry and exit holes. "I was not going to fire so many rounds but the trigger jammed," he explained.
"When he swung at me the third time (with the knife), he cut me in the mouth because he was trying to slit my throat," he added. He indicated that he had never talked to the inmate and that he was only there as back up. "I am alive by a miracle of God and so in the colonel," he finished.
After the incident in Najayo, Florian was transferred to the Juan Pablo Pina Hospital in San Cristobal. A large number of police and family members accompanied the inmate, who arrived conscious and asking to be taken to the Plaza de la Salud, according to medical personnel that attended him. From the hospital he was transferred to the Marcelino Velez Hospital in Santo Domingo where he died at around 11:00 at night.